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Happy #InternationalWomensDay! We're celebrating with a short thread about 4 of the women at Plantlife who are contributing to #plant and #fungi #conservation in very different ways! Read more below 👇

I’ve been neglecting Twitter as it’s busy in plant world, roller derby world and Pip world. Here’s me doing some jamming ✨ looking forward to being back in the pack on Sunday v Bristol for Tiger Bay Brawlers’s first sanctioned game since 2019 💪

Happy #FungiFriday pawb 🍄 Discovered the most lush little pocket of woodland near me, every square inch was stuffed full of leafy and fungi goodness 🌱

Still not mentally/emotionally recovered from the last 3 jams of #BOTAS Colorado v Black Diaspora. Like I cannot stop thinking about it. What a rollercoaster! #DerbyTwitter

🌳 The @coedceltaidd project aims to protect areas of ancient woodlands in Wales, including RSPB Gwenffrwd Dinas! 🌳 Mae’r prosiect @coedceltaidd yn gweithio i arbed ardaloedd o goeditiroedd hynafol yng Nghymru, gan gynnwys RSPB Gwenffrwd Dinas! #WildIsles

Spotted a Danish Scurvy Grass today just in the nick of time for #WildFlowerHour #WhiteBrassicas challenge 🥬 📍 Nell’s point, Barry Island (also look! Blue skies!)

Spring is here!☀️ Today marks the first official day of #spring - meaning longer days, warmer weather, and of course the appearance of more plants!🌼 Want to get involved with wild plant conservation this spring? Learn more here 👉 bit.ly/3ZRFuo1

🌳 Today, on International Day of Forests, we celebrate our rainforests and ancient woodlands across Wales. 🌳 The @coedceltaidd project aims to protect areas of ancient woodlands! Give them a follow! #ForestDay 📸: Julia Harrison / Michael Harvey / Jenny Hibbert

Moth trapping session with my Plantlife pals during our overnight conference 🌱 Despite having EVERY weather last night we had 3 visitors including this Clouded Drab 🦋🌙

When a room full of botanists are told to go outside and find a single species to bring back to the room, and they go and find 33 on the first paving slab 🌱

When life sucks, be a bird 🦆

Too little, too late: Defra UK wants to allow horticultural #peat use until 2030, flying in the face of #nature & #climate targets - #MPs UK Parliament must deliver a robust legal ban on this destructive trade w/out further delay businessgreen.com/4087186/ Plantlife #peatfree

The tiniest #FungiFriday 🍄🔍

#WildIsles grassland episode tonight! Let’s g(r)o(w) girls 🤠🌱🌸🌾🍄 There are so many amazing pockets of grasslandy goodness in and around Cardiff. My favourites are nearly always in unexpected places, like my bee orchid patch under this overpass!

As a treat from the BST clock change fairy, I got to see a really distant duck on my street 🦆 A Common Scoter!

What wildlife do meadows support? Check out the Plantlife meadows' hub for everything you wanted to know about making and looking after meadows meadows.plantlife.org.uk/about-meadows/… #WildIsles #davidattenborough #grasslands

We're pleased to see that the Government recognise that things need to change - nature-friendly farming is the future 🌱🦋 Farmers are an essential part of the recovery of many declining butterflies, and we want to see Government policies that support farmers and nature. Nature Friendly Farming Network